West Philippine Sea
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Built in six months and new threat to Taiwan – China launches 35,000 ton carrier
CHINA has launched a new amphibious assault carrier in move which defence analysts believe transformed the People’s Liberation Army Navy the minute it entered the water. The warship allows marines to capture beaches and land supplies on enemy territory and will operate alongside an increasingly powerful fleet of aircraft carriers, air defence destroyers and […]
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Who is militarizing the South China Sea?
This area is a simmering cauldron for conflict between China and its neighbours – and the US. Mark J Valencia makes sense of the situation. Chinese People’s Republic soldiers patrol the Paracel Islands, also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. The US asserts its military dominance via naval patrols and bases in the region. Credit: […]
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Beijing deploys new deepwater drilling rig in South China Sea
Beijing has deployed a new oil rig in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. Photo: WeiboBeijing has deployed a new oil rig in the disputed waters of the South China Sea. China has deployed a deepwater oil rig in the South China Sea, according to a state media report. The ‘Haiyang Shiyou […]
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More calamities, ecological disasters if we don’t wake up, do more
As I write this, the Bahamas is reeling from the aftereffects of Hurricane “Dorian”—similar to Tacloban when Supertyphoon “Yolanda” hit and devastated the city. On the other side of the planet, the Amazon forest in South America, the lungs of the earth and the last and biggest rainforest on the planet, is burning. The […]
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China CNOOC to start pumping at large deepsea gas field at end-2021: official
SANYA, China/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s national offshore producer CNOOC Ltd expects its major deepwater gas field Lingshui 17-2 in the South China Sea to start its first gas production at the end of 2021, a company executive said on Tuesday. Chinese state-run energy producers are raising spending on domestic oil and gas drilling to […]
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Philippines urged to raise arbitral ruling before UN; Locsin disagrees
MANILA, Philippines — BBC journalist and book author Bill Hayton, urged the Philippine government to raise the arbitral ruling before the United Nations (UN). In an exchange on Twitter with Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr., Hayton, who authored the book The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia, said the options […]
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A Filipino battleground in China-U.S. cool war
WASHINGTON – What happens to small states on the front lines of a decaying international order? We can get a good sense by looking at the Philippines. The last three years have seen a depressing erosion of Manila’s relationship with the United States and a weakening of its resistance to Chinese expansionism in the […]
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Palace says China blockade of PH vessels in Ayungin Shoal ‘objectionable’
MANILA, Philippines—Malacañang said Monday that it was “objectionable” that a Chinese warship blocked Philippine vessels on a resupply mission to BRP Sierra Madre in Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal in the West Philippine Sea. The Department of National Defense (DND) last week submitted a report to Congress during its budget deliberations, revealing that a Chinese […]
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China criticized for blocking resupply to Navy ship at South China Sea shoal
MANILA criticized China on Monday after a coast guard ship allegedly blocked three Philippine civilian vessels trying to bring supplies to a navy ship that was deliberately run aground at the Second Thomas Shoal in 1999. “Of course, it’s objectionable,” presidential spokesman Salvador S. Panelo said in mixed English and Filipino at a briefing. […]
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South China Sea: Beijing warns of ’hostile action’ as Europe sends warships to the region
THE UK will send its new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth to the volatile South China Sea region, while France has already sent its Frigate, Dixmude, to the Spratly islands, which are a contested group of islands within the Nine Dash Line. China hit back at the news of the European nations ordering key […]